Teaching strategies

Fifteen Tools for Creating Mind Maps and Flowcharts Richard Byrne - PracticalEdTech.com GitMind GitMind is a mind mapping tool that offers some excellent features for teachers and students. GitMind offers more than one hundred templates for teachers and students to use and modify. Some of the t...

A quick way to check in on student understanding & points of confusion that also sparks student metacognition.

The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai

Once asked to write a full story in six words, legend has it that novelist Ernest Hemingway responded: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." In this spirit, Smith Magazine invited writers "famous and obscure" to distill their own life stories into a single sentence. It All Changed in an Instant is the fourth collection of six-word memoirs from the magazine.

On Liquid Margins “Bodies of Knowledge: Teaching Health Professions With Social Annotation,” we discuss the ways in which social reading is leading to student success in one of the most popular majors.

It’s been said that the best tool is the one you actually have with you, but how useful that tool is really comes down to whether or not you know best how to use it. Bearing that in mind, this post is aimed at helping you best utilize the online teaching resources provided by the K. Patricia Cross Academy. Video ... Read More

This video discusses the benefits of using drawing in the classroom and some strategies for incoporating these activities in your classes.

Practicing Community-Building Activities Online Workshop Handout These three workshops structured small-group and larger group activities practicing community-building structures provided by Equity Unbound and OneHE. We practiced different activities at each workshop. Facilitated by Christina Mo...

Today in lecture students started with this coloring sheet via zoom. It fills up pretty quickly with 100s of students on the call @AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM @UofT https://t.co/vez8TcVRfv

Why is it that so many people think they can’t draw? Where did we learn to believe that? Graham Shaw will shatter this illusion – quite literally - in a very...

Here's how to get started developing your visual note-taking skills!Download the free practice activities: http://www.verbaltovisual.com/sketchnoting/My name...

How to draw to remember more! You may not believe it yet, but we are all capable of drawing sketches that make information memorable. In this talk you will d...

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Want students to remember something? Ask them to draw it.

So something sort of serendipitous happened today. I forgot my glasses at home. I see OK without them, but I wouldn’t be able to see students’ faces too clearly. I know who is who, even…

Six strategies for asking better questions of students.

Research papers are written for an audience of other academics who are experts in the field and have the background knowledge. However, teachers may benefit from reading research papers in order to get a first-hand account of why and how research is conducted and what can be concluded from research

Throughout this series, we’ve unpacked the three presences of Charles Sander Peirce’s Community of Inquiry (CoI) model. In my previous posts, we’ve looked at social and teaching presence. Cognitive…

Episode #48: How to Create Social Spaces in Your Courses with Dr. Melissa Wehler

By Joe Bandy, Assistant Director, CFT Academic Content Service Placement Student Reflection Feedback Jeffrey Howard has offered ten principles of that may serve as valuable guidelines for planning high impact community engaged courses and projects, which are excerpted here by the University of Minnesota’s Community Service-Learning Center. [9] In addition to these principles, the scholarship...

When designing a course, each move matters. From your selection of course materials, to your teaching methods, to the ways you ask students to demonstrate their learning, your course may privilege some students while disadvantaging others. There are moves you can make during the course design phase, though, that can help you create a more equitable and inclusive learning experience.

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An education expert suggests good practices teachers can use to build community with students and create a caring climate in their courses.

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